Touch Me Not

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Touch Me Not
File:Touch Me Not.png
Romanian film poster
Directed by Adina Pintilie
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  • Bianca Oana
  • Philippe Avril
  • Adina Pintilie
Written by Adina Pintilie
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Music by Ivo Paunov
Cinematography George Chiper-Lillemark
Edited by Adina Pintilie
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  • Alamode Film (Germany)
  • Pilot Film (Czech Republic)
  • Nour Films (France)
Release dates
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  • 22 February 2018 (2018-02-22) (Berlin)
  • 31 October 2018 (2018-10-31) (France)
  • 1 November 2018 (2018-11-01) (Germany)
Running time
 125 minutes
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  • Romania
  • Germany[1]
    Czech Republic[2]
  • France
  • Bulgaria[3]
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  • English
  • German
Budget €1 million[4]
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Adina Pintilie

Touch Me Not (Romanian: Nu mă atinge) is a 2018 internationally co-produced drama film directed by Adina Pintilie and starring Laura Benson, Tómas Lemarquis, and Dirk Lange. The film was screened in the main competition section at the 68th Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear.[5][6][7] Touch Me Not is an experiment between fiction and documentary, and addresses the prejudices of people related to intimacy.[8]

Cast

Reception

According to a list by Screen International, the film received an average rating of 1,5 of four possible stars by film critics at the Berlinale and was thereby in the third-last place of all films in the Berlinale main competition.[9] It was seen as a controversial film, viewers left the cinema in rows.[10][11] The Golden Bear awarded by the Berlinale jury thus came as a surprise.

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Deborah Young of The Hollywood Reporter praised the film, describing it as "an eye-opening look at human sexuality". She stated, "Though not every moment is fascinating to watch, most moments are, and adult audiences should find its frank presentation of the diversity of intimacy thought-provoking and possibly therapeutic."[14]

In a negative review, Peter Bradshaw of The Guardian called the film "embarrassingly awful", criticising "its mediocrity, its humourless self-regard, its fatuous and shallow approach to its ostensible theme of intimacy, and the clumsy way all this was sneakily elided with Euro-hardcore cliches about BDSM, alternative sexualities, fetishism and exhibitionism." He described the film's recognition at the Berlinale as a "calamity" for the festival.[15]

References

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  9. ↑ Dalton, Ben: 'Isle Of Dogs' tops Screen's final Berlin Jury Grid; Golden Bear winner 'Touch Me Not' scores low. In: screendaily.com, 26 February 2018 (retrieved 8 March 2018).
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